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Black cat energy 💫

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I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that - I deal with them on a daily basis.

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my other grounding technique is remembering that the earliest abolitionists & the earliest suffragists had no proof that the world would ever make possible what they fought for and indeed many of them did not live to see it come to pass. and yet they did not succumb to despair so it would be disrespectful to their memory to let it overtake me

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sipping on drinks you can’t pronounce in bars you’ve never heard of

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Deleting the “I’m bald” option before posting a poll on teams

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You know, after the initial shock of everything, I am being so strongly pulled to radical hope

They want to break me, they want to break us. So don't let them. make a cup of hot chocolate. Eat that cookie that's a little *too* sugary. You are a wonderful creature worthy of love and whimsy.

We will get through this. We will persist. This fire cannot be stomped out, not while the flint of human life keeps hitting the steel. Not while people are still being fed to the fire of this world.

Let it be the fire of the hearth, not one of a dumpster.

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I post about The Starless Sea a lot, but it genuinely helped me get through the last trump presidency.

Some key things I’m holding onto now:

Showing up for one person makes a difference. Checking in on your friends makes a difference.

We all need a little escapism sometimes, and that’s okay.

Your story matters. Even if you never have kids, lost your faith/belief in an afterlife. Even if you feel alone. Your story matters. Your existence has permanently altered the world, and your stories and stardust will remain.

Sometimes things break so badly they can’t be put back together. But we can still create new things.

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You can call me crazy but I firmly believe that podcasts have played a significant role in the downfall of this country

So many dumbass men with microphones spewing their dangerous, misogynistic rhetoric are more easily accessible to younger dumbass men than ever and they eat that shit up and become emboldened by it

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I love you everyone in red states right now.

I love you everyone who has family that is/will celebrate a Trump victory.

I love you everyone surrounded by loved ones actively voting against your rights.

If you voted for Kamala, you did everything you could and you should be proud.

All of your frustration and anger is justified, understandable, and fair.

I’m sending you all love and peace.

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I love this picture so much! Post it whenever I come across it.

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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

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I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.